2010/08/15

Your everyday life and 2012 doomsday


Source:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/its-the-end-of-the-world-but-not-as-we-know-it-20091203-k8pg.html

Topic:
It's the end of the world but not as we know it.

Author:
Andrew Frost


This article is a movie review about the movie “2012 Doomsday”. At the beginning of the article, the author uses concise language to summarize the whole movie. Then he observes a popularity of doomsday movie and gives many examples, such as “knowing”. He also finds out that another kind of movie is unusual hot, that is vampire and zombie movie. Moreover, he provides an analysis about this popularity. The reason is people are worrying about the future of the world, but they try to believe that they can survive or maybe they can transfer to another kind of living creature, which will never die.

This movie review is the best one I have ever seen, comparing with other articles about the movie “2012 Doomsday”, because of its in-depth analysis. The author Andrew Frost is a professional art critic. He not only focuses on the popularity of the movie, but also points out the reason behind this popularity. As a movie critic, He points out the problem sharply, “The problem with our collective imagination is that the end of the world isn't something that we'll get to watch from a comfortable chair in an air-conditioned cinema. It's something that we'd be a part of.”

A movie is just a movie. The reason why media pay attention to movie is not just for entertainment. If we look at different kinks of movie and figure out in a particular period which kind of movie is most popular, we are not just talking about the movie, but the social trend. The type of social trend is developed by a particular cultural and historic reason. Movie is like a mirror, which shows what people are thinking and doing.

3 comments:

  1. 往屎里踩。。。。。。。。。。

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  2. in my opinion, no one can predict the Last Day. i think people are more concern about the economic situation now, well.. probably some of them are hoping that year 2012 will be their last year so that they don't need to think about the mortgage.. ;)

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  3. It's like a trick picture when someone talking about the 2012. But it is really attract many people's eyes.

    Mimic videos is a good way to demonstrate this issue. In addtion, reasonable imagination would be good to use in this kind of article. That's not about the objectivity ,that's all about the oddity.

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